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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
	dm-devel@redhat.com, Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>, Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] block: trace completion of all bios.
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 10:14:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170327171421.GA464@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zig76oca.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name>

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 08:49:57PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > I don't really like the flag at all.  I'd much prefer a __bio_endio
> > with a 'bool trace' flag.  Also please remove the manual tracing in
> > dm.ċ.  Once that is done I suspect we can also remove the
> > block_bio_complete export.
> 
> Can you say why you don't like it?

It uses up a precious bit in the bio for something that should be state
that can be determined in the caller at compile time.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-27 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-22  2:38 [PATCH] block: trace completion of all bios NeilBrown
2017-03-22 12:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-03-23  6:26   ` NeilBrown
2017-03-23  6:29   ` [PATCH v2] " NeilBrown
2017-03-23 10:43     ` Ming Lei
2017-03-24  0:06       ` NeilBrown
2017-03-24  0:07       ` [PATCH v3] " NeilBrown
2017-03-24  6:47         ` Ming Lei
2017-03-26 23:17           ` NeilBrown
2017-03-27  9:03         ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-03-27  9:49           ` NeilBrown
2017-03-27 17:14             ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-03-27 23:42               ` [dm-devel] " NeilBrown

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